Business
Essentials
9e
Ebert/Griffin
Organizing
Organizing
the
the
Business
Business
chapter six
After reading this chapter, you should be
able to:
1. Discuss the factors that influence a firm’s organizational structure.
2. Explain specialization and
departmentalization as two of the building blocks of organizational structure.
3. Describe centralization and
decentralization, delegation, and authority as the key ingredients in establishing the decision-making hierarchy.
After reading this chapter, you should be
able to:
4.
Explain the differences among
functional, divisional, matrix, and
international organizational
structures and describe the most
popular new forms of organizational
design.
5.
Describe the informal organization
and discuss intrapreneuring.
What Is Organizational
Structure?
Organizational Structure
└ specification of the jobs to be done
within an organization and the ways in which they relate to one another
